Zen and The Art Of Infrastructure Maintenance
There’s a famous passage I’ve quoted from time to time when I see someone “stuck” with a problem, flailing potential fixes and solutions wildly in hope that one of them does the trick. “Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.” Just like that. Improper grammar and all, quoted verbatim from Robert Pirsig’s philosophical […]
DEVOPS AND CONTINUIOUS DELIVERY; THE NEED FOR SPEED
Some good stuff around the DevOps scene this week on DevOps and Continuous Delivery, which the pundits are saying will be a major spend area in 2014. First up is the Devopsguys who with a little commentary reposted this infographic from Zend Technologies. It demonstrates the real value in DevOps and continuous delivery. One thing that jumped […]
DevOps: An Opportunity to Build a Better Resiliency
Security professionals like to check code for security-related defects before the code is delivered. When they start hearing about multiple builds a day, or even a few builds a week, and a radical decrease in development time along with operational changes, they are bound to give pause. After all, most are having a hard time […]
DevOps and Security Are Compatible
When I speak with information security organizations faced with the prospect of moving to DevOps, one of the most common fears I hear is that this transition will degrade security of infrastructure and applications. If you’re one of these folks, I understand this fear but you can rest assured: when you do things correctly security will […]
Security Policies For DevOps 101
A while back I was talking with some friends about how to ensure security inside a devops environment. The simple first thought was that no where does DevOps say to do away with security. Instead, consider how your existing information security practices and policies need to adjust given the changes that DevOps brings to the […]
Step One Of DevOps Ignores Technology
I’ve spent a bunch of time talking with Adrian Cockcroft, former cloud tzar at Neflix, and listening to his various talks and presentations. I’ve also spent a bunch of time looking around the various rooms within which he presents and seen the dazed look of attendees who have rightly assumed that just seen a picture […]
Why you can’t buy DevOps in a box
Companies will often believe they can buy their way out of technical debt without making any substantial changes. They often think they can buy DevOps in a box. Well, unfortunately, devops isn’t for sale. For an organization to embrace DevOps it will need to adopt cultural change, adopt tools which enable automation, and change processes […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]
So, you wanna DevOps?
How do you start your career in DevOps? How do I shift my team to use those approaches? This is a question I run into more and more frequently. Either while speaking to candidates, or among colleagues looking to move their IT operations into a more devops aligned culture. I want to look at that […]
DevOps’ Chicken Or Egg Origins
When acolytes explain the DevOps movement to the uninitiated, they usually run into a chicken and egg line of questioning. What is DevOps, really? Is it a culture? Is it a pattern of processes? Or is it a technology? What comes first? The ratios of the perceived importance of each of those elements may shift […]
Why Baking Security Into the DevOps Framework is Vital to Its Success
I attended my first official DevOps conference in Israel in September 2013. But I was initially introduced to DevOps by my customers – firewall and network managers who, through their efforts to automate security policy management, found themselves dealing with a new and like-minded set of IT stakeholders – DevOps teams. They said DevOps was […]
The Unexpected Benefits of DevOps
There are many well and widely known benefits of DevOps, including rapid software delivery, a higher degree of enterprise agility, increased system resilience, and being able to swiftly identify and resolve problems. But what unexpected benefits have been experienced by organizations that are already down the DevOps path? Kevin Behr, chief science officer at Assemblage […]
DevOps: It’s All Open Source’s Fault
Blame DevOps on open source. After all, it was the open source movement that gave developers the idea that they were free to code, free to build applications and other software for their companies without needing prior approval. It was open source that crowned developers kingmakers. It was open source that gave developers the freedom […]
JumpCloud Joins Rackspace Marketplace
Automating Server Management is Now Just a Click Away For Rackspace Customers BOULDER, Colo., Feb 25, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) —JumpCloud™ , the leading automated server management tool for DevOps and IT pros, today announced that its best-in-class service is now available through the Marketplace for Rackspace® Hosting,RAX +5.66% , the open cloud company. An ideal addition to the […]